Chanterelles by Evie Wyld – Forest fables podcast

In our fourth exclusive sound story celebrating Britain's forests, the Granta young British novelist Evie Wyld reads her unsettling tale of marital tension at the end of times

Forests have a long tradition in literature. They represent the edge of the civilised and the unknowable. They are the home of outlaws and the otherworldly. In a new series sponsored by the Woodland Trust, the Guardian is publishing four new stories with the British woodland at their heart. Each piece is accompanied by sound design and location recordings by award-winning natural sound recordist Chris Watson and sound designer and composer Pascal Wyse.

The fourth podcast in our series is by Evie Wyld, a writer nominated for Granta's once-in-a-decade selection of the best young British novelists. In this story, Wyld looks back at a family video recorded in the woodlands, laced with a sense of impending doom. We recorded this piece on the Isle of Wight in the pine forest of Parkhurst, and have included recordings from the ferry ride over.

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